A CYCLONE.

Evening Star, Issue 12699, 27 June 1907, Page 5

A CYCLONE.

FELT THEOUGHOUT NEW ZEALAND. [Per Untied Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 26. The meteorological office reports that at 5 p.m. yesterday the whole country was within the limits of a cyclone of unusual extent, which approached from about N.N.W. The first evidence of its existence was noticed oil Monday, but as it was then to the northward of Norfolk Island its size could-not be,determined, but by Tuesday morning the barometer at Norfolk Island hid fallen to. 29deg 35min—a drop of nearly 8-10ihs of an inch since the previous day, giving evidence that the disturbance was one of great extent. The fall at Auckland Was one inch and one-tenth during the kwenty-fottr boors.

BTONDATION AT THE THAMES. "THAMES, June 26. A most unusual scene was witnessed this evening. The wind lashed the Hauraki Gulf into a seething mass of huge waves, which broke along the foreshore, doing considerable damage to the stone embankment and wooden structures. Several vachts were damaged, and one smashed to pieces. The tide was abnormally high, and this, together with the heavy sea, blocked up all the drain outlets of the town. The water was backed up over the footpaths, and Gnihamstown wis practically isolated. The Miners' Hall, whore a company was appearing was surrounded by a sheet of water 18in deep. Ladies were carried to the hull on men's backs, and the rost of the audience taken in carts to the door, where planks were laid. THE S.S. WANAKA CATCHES IT. AUCKLAND, Juno 26. The Wanalfct, from the South, arrived tonight, after a very rousjh passage. A sea broke -en boird yesterday morning which shifted the dock cargo, including a number of casks of tallow. In securing the casks a teaman named! Robert M'Leod was jammed, »nd had one ankle badlv injured. Ho ha* been taken t«. the hospital. BREASTWORKS DEMOLISHED. AUCKLAND, June 27. During tbo pa-le yesterday heavy «as demolished a portion of the new breastwerk at Mansonui. In Auckland city and suburbs the pale raged fiercely all but i 3 now (9.22 a.m.) moderating. Many fences are down, and trees were broken and uprooted. STEAMERS DELAYED UP NORTH. A WHARF BROKEN IN TWO. AUCKLAND, June 27. The weather on the west coast continues 'err stormy. The departure of the Rotoiti for the south is again postponed, and it is djubfc.Hil if the Itarawa can leave to-day. A small vessel named the "Albatross drifted on to the Ponsonby wharf and broke it in two. ON" THE OTAGO COAST. The Talune, corning down from Lyttelton last night, had a rather bad time bf it, and arrived about four houns late. On the Diner band, Captain Maxks, of the Rakiura, reports that he had a very fair passage up from Waikawa, and only struck trouble when be got ae far north as Cape Saunders.